I have a program which produces useful information on stdout but also reads from stdin. I want to redirect its standard output to a file without providing anything on standard input. So far, so good: ...

I accidentally "stopped" my telnet process. Now I can neither "switch back" into it, nor can I kill it (it won't respond to kill 92929, where 92929 is the processid.)
So, my question is, if you have ...

I was helping a colleague who was having problems with a background process intermittently dying.
I found out that they were starting the background process by logging in to the server and executing:
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I already know that pressing ctrl+z stops the app, then I can send the app to background with the bg command, but that means there is a brief preiod of time that the app is stopped.
How do I send the ...

Am writing a bash 4.1 script...
Would like run another script (or internal function) in the background...
And capture the pid of that background job in a variable in the foreground script...
If the ...

I'm attempting to build a monitoring script to watch localhost communication using netcat. I have two scripts that I've built, one to start the monitoring loop and one for the loop itself. They are as ...

I'm currently running Debian 6.0.5 on my white Macbook 2008 (4,1) and have recently noticed that when I download, move, or decompress a file, Gnome freezes up completely for at least 20 seconds. These ...

For reference, I'm using phpseclib to control a remote SSH server using the 'root' account.
I have to start/stop a java process which is ran in the background. Stopping works fine with killall java ...

From gnome-terminal I know the ability to suspend a job with C-z, and then send it to the background. When I close the terminal the process does not end. Where is the job being managed from, or is it ...

I have an exercise to put in a file some data (*conf from some directories) and need to do this in background. I did it and I am wondering what is the meaning of output messages:
[A@localhost tests]$ ...

I have a console program with an interactive shell, similar to say, the Python interactive shell. Is there an easy way to start this interactive program A and then use another program B to run A? I ...

Startup scripts (on boot)
Processes running in (or sent to) the background (when using SSH -fN for example)
Services
etc...
What $path variable will they be using? What credentials? Anything else I ...